Live
Powered by

2026-10-27

Drive to Detroit

  • Id: 2026-10-27-drive-to-detroit
  • Title: Drive to Detroit
  • Kind: travel
  • Discipline: travel
  • Surface: off-bike
  • Priority: informational
  • Planned time: unscheduled
  • Duration: variable
  • Location: Indianapolis, IN to near Detroit, MI
  • TrainingPeaks ID: 99406762

Objective

Travel without adding stress or losing fuelling and hydration.

Goal

Arrive with loose legs, in time for a proper dinner and an early night.

Reasoning

Added Oct 26: Sidney drives from Indianapolis to a friend's house near Detroit, about 4.5 hours, and stays there until Thursday morning.

Event details

  • Drive from Indianapolis to a friend's house near Detroit, about 4.5 hours.
  • Ride before you leave if you can: it's the easiest way to keep the legs moving on a driving day.
  • Pack GF/DF food and bottles for the drive.

Constraints

  • Stop every 90-120 min to walk for a few minutes, and keep drinking.

Easy endurance 1:00

  • Id: 2026-10-27-easy-endurance-1-00
  • Title: Easy endurance 1:00
  • Kind: workout
  • Discipline: bike
  • Surface: road
  • Priority: support
  • Planned time: unscheduled
  • Duration: 1:00
  • Intensity: easy endurance
  • Location: Indianapolis, IN or near Detroit, MI
  • TrainingPeaks ID: 3968330182

Objective

Keep the legs moving on a driving day without adding fatigue.

Goal

Loose, rested legs for Wednesday's short race-pace session.

Reasoning

Revised after Roanoke (Sep 28); changed Oct 15 (swapped with Wednesday). Changed Oct 26: an easy 1:00 instead of 1:15 steady. Tuesday is now a 4.5-hour drive to Detroit, and Sunday's race showed tiredness carried in from Saturday (heart rate about 5 beats low at race power). This week's job is freshness for Nationals: less volume, the same rhythm.

Workout plan

  • Ride it before the drive if you can; otherwise after you arrive.
  • 10 min easy.
  • 40 min at 156-182 W, cadence 85-95 rpm, seated on climbs.
  • 10 min easy.

Structured workout

  • Primary intensity metric: percentOfFtp
  • Step: Warm-up, 10 min, 55-65, warmUp
  • Step: Endurance, 40 min, 60-70, active
  • Step: Cool-down, 10 min, 50-60, coolDown

Fuelling

A proper breakfast first, and a bottle with 30-40 g of carbohydrate.

Constraints

  • Easy day: stay inside the written power range and stop at the written time, even if you feel good.
  • Heart rate under about 145. No surges and no hard climbs.

Easy run with strides

  • Id: 2026-10-27-easy-run-with-strides
  • Title: Easy run with strides
  • Kind: workout
  • Discipline: run
  • Surface: off-bike
  • Priority: support
  • Planned time: after the drive
  • Duration: 0:20
  • Intensity: easy with strides
  • Location: Near Detroit, MI
  • TrainingPeaks ID: 3968330181

Objective

Keep the running habit and leg speed without adding fatigue.

Goal

Loosen up after the drive, with relaxed, quick running form for Saturday's remounts and run-ups.

Reasoning

Revised after Roanoke (Sep 28): one of Sidney's two weekly runs. Changed Oct 26: no hill run-ups this week. After a tiring weekend, hard run-ups would leave sore calves for Saturday, and Friday's pre-ride covers the run-ups on the real course.

Workout plan

  • After the drive. Skip it if the drive runs long.
  • 12 min easy running.
  • 4 x 20 sec strides on flat ground: build to fast but relaxed, not a sprint. Walk back (about 60 sec).
  • 3 min easy to finish.

Structured workout

  • Primary intensity metric: percentOfThresholdPace
  • Step: Easy run, 12 min, 75-85, warmUp
  • Repetition block: 4 reps
    • Step: Stride, 20 sec, 100-115, active
    • Step: Walk back, 60 sec, 30-50, rest
  • Step: Easy run, 3 min, 75-85, coolDown

Constraints

  • Keep to the written time, even if you feel good.
  • Stop at any ankle, calf or SI complaint.
  • Soft, flat ground if you can find it.